Improvement in wheelbarrows



B. w. TUTHILL. Wheelbarrow.

No. 95,288. Pat ented Sept. 28, 1869.

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UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.B. W. TUTHILL, OF OREGON CITY, OREGON.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEELBARROWS.,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 95,288, dated September 28, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, B. W. TUTHILL, of Oregon City, in the county of Olackamas and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wheelbarrows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being bad tothe accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to construct wheelbarrows with metallic frames, metallic boxes or trays, and also with certain improve ments in the construction and arrangement of the hubs of the wheels, all designed to pro vide cheaper and more durable wheelbarrows than when made of wood in the common Way.

Figure 1 represents a transverse section of a wheelbarrow constructed according to my improvements. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal sectional elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

I construct the side and transverse pieces of the frame A and B of metal tubes, joining them together by fitting the ends of the transverse pie'ces B to the curvature of the side pieces, and passing tie-rods 0 through holes in the side pieces and the bore of the transverse pieces, and' screwing them up at the ends similar to my method of forming the frames of hand-trucks, as described in an application for a patent bearing even date herewith.

The'boxes or trays E I make of light sheet metal, shaped, by hammering or-otherwise, into the required pan-shaped form, and stiffened at the edges by wiring, as shown at G. They may be secured to the framing in any preferred way. 1

My improvement in the hub consists in constructing it of a metal tube, H, preferably of the length of the distance between the haudles, bushed at each end, as shown at l, and

supported on a fixed shaft, K, which may be either supported in lugs L connected to the side pieces, or it may be connected directly to the said side pieces, as preferred.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isa Wheelbarrows having metallic tubular frames, and sheet-metal boxes or trays, when constructed and arranged substantially as specified.

B. W. TUTHILL.

Witnesses:

WM. WHITLOOK, W. L. WHITE. 

